Chapter XXI: Letter IV (8)

_Vendôme_, Duc de. See _Henry IV._

_Vendôme_, House of, its position, ii. 40

_Vendôme_, retaken by Navarre and the governor executed, ii. 254

_Vendôme’s_ sister Catherine, rumours of her intended marriage to
Alençon, ii. 51, and _note_;
to the Duke of Savoy, 148, 194;
to the Duke of Lorraine’s son, 163;
to Condé, 233;
to Duke of Epernon, 242;
her great prospects, 176

_Venetian_ Baily. See _Baily_

_Venetian_ goldsmith, adventure of a, i. 224

_Verdun_, town of, taken by Guise, ii. 247

_Vimioso_, the Count of, Don Antonio’s Constable, killed off the
Azores, ii. 146

_Viteaux_, the Baron de, a famous duellist, murders du Guast, ii. 116,
_note_;
account of his death, 189-191, and _notes_

_Vopiscus_, quoted, i. 214

_Vulcob_, M. de, French Ambassador at Vienna, ii. 36, and _note_, 85;
arrangement by which Busbecq received his salary through him, 112,
122

_Weasels_, stories of, i. 203

_Wranczy_ or _Verantius_, Antony, Bishop of Fünfkirchen, afterwards
of Erlau and finally Archbishop of Gran, sent as ambassador to the
Porte, i. 80;
Busbecq finds him at Constantinople, 111

_Wyss_, Albert de, comes with presents from Ferdinand to the Sultan,
i. 297

_Ypres_, given up for lost, ii. 194;
still blockaded by Parma, 199

_Zay_, Francis, commander of the Danube flotilla known as _Nassades_,
afterwards governor of Kaschau, sent as ambassador to the Porte,
i. 80;
Busbecq finds him at Constantinople, 111;
his fishing in the Halys, 145

_Zutphen_, town in Gelderland, taken by the Spaniards, ii. 208